Natural beauty quotes

Viet Nam News By Nguyễn Mỹ Hà In today’s age of youthfulness and good looks, there is strong peer pressure for teenage girls and boys to wear their best clothing and accessories. Teenagers can become very volatile as they grow up, becoming confident and getting through puberty successfully, or becoming intimidated and withdrawn. Sitting in the audience of my daughter’s school debate last week, I noticed that some of the students took the subject seriously and delved deep into the matter. Among the subjects were body shaming, private vs public schooling, the healing power of classical music and positive thinking. My 9th grader chose to talk about beauty standards vs teen insecurities. So she started out by asking everyone in the audience: “If any of you here ever been called ugly, please raise your hand?” She also raised her left hand. An English teacher sitting next to me mumbled: “Oh, everyday!” “People may call you … [Read more...] about Beauty standards vs teen insecurities

Foreign businesses in HCM City reopen after riots
All foreign businesses in HCM City’s export processing and industrial zones, including Taiwanese resumed production on May 19, following recent anti-Chinese protests.
Taiwanese-invested Freetrend Company in Linh Trung 2 industrial zone stabilised and restarted operations to ensure the supply of products under the signed contracts after two days of civil unrest against China’s illegal actions in the East Sea Local authorities’ have pledged their commitment to supporting businesses and addressing difficulties to ensure a safe investment environment.
The HCM City Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (HEPZA) called on business, particularly foreign ones to strengthen solidarity between employers and employees to stabilise and develop production, fulfilling targets for 2014.
HEPZA’s Management Board Head Vu Van Hoa said that businesses should put their faith in the Vietnamese laws and the State, which … [Read more...] about BUSINESS IN BRIEF 21/5

(VOVworld) – Clarin, the most popular online newspaper in Argentina, has posted an article and a 6-minute video clip praising the amazing beauty of Son Doong cave in Vietnam’s Quang Binh province. The giant cave was discovered in 1991 but only explored for the first time in 2009. Being the biggest natural cave in the world, Son Doong is located in the Phong Nha – Ke Bang natural park, about 500 km south of Hanoi. Son Doong cave is part of an underground system of rivers, tropical forests, beaches, and hundreds of caves and grottos of which only 20 were explored. The newspaper quoted American Photographer Ryan Deboodt who defined it as "an alien planet in the Earth" and found the best way to make it known to the world a few weeks ago: filming with a drone. … [Read more...] about Argentinean media hail Son Doong beauty

The central coastal province of Khanh Hoa has approved a “luxury urban area” project that will be built on 80 hectares of Nha Trang Bay despite objections construction will destroy the natural environment. The Diamond Bay luxury urban area will also use nearly 60 hectares of water of the bay, considered one of the most beautiful in the world, outside the main location for its services, according to the plan approved by the province government last December. The fill-up is expected to use more than 3.6 million cubic meters of soil. The project is invested in by local Hoan Cau Company and includes a 40-story hotel, a 45-story garden high-rise of apartments and many parks to the south of Tran Phu Bridge, which runs along the sea. Khanh Hoa several years ago allowed Hoan Cau to rent the bay at the price of VND90,000 (US$4.27) a hectare a year for a nearly 50-year term to “protect the bay and develop it for tourism purposes,” according to the contract. Truong Kinh, … [Read more...] about Vietnam province to further destroy its beautiful bay

Air New Zealand to fly nonstop to HCMC in June The Saigon Times Daily HCMC - Air New Zealand has said it will launch Auckland-HCMC nonstop service in June this year to meet rising demand for air travel between New Zealand and Vietnam. The airline will operate Boeing B767-300 aircraft configured with 24 Business-class and 206 Economy-class seats for three weekly flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from June 4 to October 29. The carrier’s aircraft will land at Tan Son Nhat International Airport at 7:45 p.m. and take off in HCMC at 9:45 p.m. The flying time is around 11 hours for the flight from HCMC to Auckland and 12 hours for the service on the opposite direction. Two-way HCMC-Auckland tickets start from US$940. Discover the World Vietnam is the general sales agent of the carrier here in this market. Scott Carr, general manager of Air New Zealand in Asia, said in a statement that the service will bring New Zealand closer to Vietnamese tourists who are keen to … [Read more...] about Air New Zealand to fly nonstop to HCMC in June